COBIT Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring COBIT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 105 106
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 +20
Contract jobs citing COBIT 10 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.76% 0.38% 0.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.24% 3.23% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £557 £404 £298
25th Percentile £575 £445 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £526 £463
Median % change year-on-year +14.01% +13.78% -32.73%
75th Percentile £650 £595 £647
90th Percentile £680 £628 £679
South East median daily rate £648 £650 £975
% change year-on-year -0.31% -33.33% +44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £81.00 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

COBIT falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 236 186 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.87% 11.67% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 69 177
10th Percentile £400 £357 £153
25th Percentile £451 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £585 £598
90th Percentile £664 £678 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £493 £525
% change year-on-year +1.52% -6.19% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 25
10th Percentile £18.22 £60.75 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.80 £24.34
Median hourly rate £19.44 £61.80 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -68.55% +13.26% +153.77%
75th Percentile £81.00 £64.08 £73.59
90th Percentile £82.88 £64.73 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £17.96 £54.36 £51.06
% change year-on-year -66.96% +6.47% +129.46%

COBIT
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing COBIT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

COBIT job vacancy trend in Berkshire

COBIT
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing COBIT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing COBIT

COBIT
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COBIT in Berkshire over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for COBIT in Berkshire

COBIT
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing COBIT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing COBIT

COBIT
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +32 10 £600 -7.69% 4
COBIT
South East

COBIT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Report Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Information Security
2 8 (80.00%) Information Security Management
2 8 (80.00%) Security Management
2 8 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
4 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
5 4 (40.00%) Migration
5 4 (40.00%) Validation
6 3 (30.00%) Data Validation
7 2 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (20.00%) Data Mapping
8 1 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
8 1 (10.00%) IT Audit
8 1 (10.00%) IT Governance
8 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (90.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) COSO
2 1 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle